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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: jominj on February 09, 2014, 09:31:12 pm

Title: How to Reset Wordpress Admin Password Through FTP
Post by: jominj on February 09, 2014, 09:31:12 pm

We can reset the wordpress admin dashboard password   through FTP. Go through the following steps to reset the password

• Login to your wordpress active theme's function.php file
• Edit the file and add following code to it right at the beginning after the <?php

Code: [Select]

wp_set_password( 'password', 1 );replace the 'password' with you new password. Number 1in the function indicates the user id in the wp_users table which is for admin user

• Save the file upload it back to your web site
• Then after you will be able to login to the site using the new password

Note: Please remove the extra code that have been added after you login to the dashboard, other wise the password will reset every time we load the page.